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[Epidemiology of stroke in the Ukrainian and Slovak Carpathian Mountains]
Abstract:
Different aspects of epidemiology of stroke were studied in residents of 2 adjacent geographic zones: USSR and Eastern Slovak Carpathian. A total of 385 cerebral stroke patients were studied in the USSR and 345 in Eastern Slovakia. Risk factors were determined. Cerebral serial angiography revealed that carotid and subclavian arteries pathology are major causes of stroke.